· Private foundation
Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k16 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $760k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS | $260,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO | $250,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $250,000 |
| ARBORETUM SAN ANTONIO | $200,000 |
| JOURNEY OF FLIGHT | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| VIBRANT WORKS | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| GARDOPIA GARDENS | $150,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL | $150,000 |
| THE ECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALTH | $142,513 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $125,000 |
| BE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC | $120,000 |
| ALPHA HOME | $109,740 |
| YOUNG LIFE SAN ANTONIO | $106,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SASAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +84%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +60%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS2× · 2019–2020 · $550k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HCHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $550k · revenue +59%
- SASAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +60%
- SASAN ANTONIO EDUCATION FUND DBA SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…
The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
To foster human and community development through community-based arts.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach
Develop and promote the lifetime sport
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Energy Partnerships Innovation Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 170 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Christian Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds Project MEND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds RISE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WESTERN ART FOUNDATION BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION FUND DBA SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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